It wasn't a "petunia"

Today was the last day of Spring Break, so I gave the kids cameras and had them go around the house to get photos of objects which begin with each letter of the alphabet. I smiled as Austin ran away from Camille who was trying to snap a photo of him for the letter "A." This would definitely keep them occupied for a while -- even though we are some of the only people on the planet who have a xylophone laying around. If we hadn't had that, it would certainly be the best idea ever... they'd still be looking!

About an hour later, I was watching Austin recite the ABCs for the fiftieth time, and he said to himself, "I got it!" before running to the bathroom and closing the door.

"What are you doing?" I yelled after him.

"Taking a picture."

"What letter are you on?"

"P."

I went through about four or five awful possibilities of objects he could be photographing -- none of them good.

The moral of this story, folks, is to stick with Playstation 3 or the Wii and leave all those creative parenting ideas behind -- far, far behind...